Great End

Grains Gill and Great End from Hind Gill

There’s something truly dramatic about Great End.  As Wainwright says, "This is the true Lakeland of the fellwalker, the sort of terrain that calls him back time after time, the sort of memory that haunts his long winter exile.”  From the South it’s merely the end of the Scafell chain but from the North it’s a huge, wall of rock forming an immense, forbidding  backdrop to Sprinkling and Styhead Tarns and Grains Gill.  Although the face of the rock is pitted and scarred, there are scrambles and walking routes to the top giving wonderful views across the whole of Lakeland.